Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Music
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
